Digital Government:

Project Update - August 2003

• The swapper runs on the user's machine, rather than as a Web Service, allowing use on real data.
  
  
• Scripting capability for extensive studies, for example including multiple rates and all choices of one- and two-attribute swaps.
  
  
• Capability to handle weighted records.

• Reiter, J. P. (2003) "Model diagnostics for remote access regression servers." Statistics and Computing. To appear.
  
  
• Reiter, J. P., and Kohnen, C. (2003) "Generalized linear model diagnostics for remote servers." Proceedings of the Association for Survey Computing Conference 2003.

3. PRESENTATIONS

Association for Survey Computing Conference 2003, September 2003

• Jerome P. Reiter: "Model diagnostics for remote access regression servers"

First Workshop on Data Cleaning, Record Linkage, and Object Consolidation (held in conjunction with 9th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, August 24-27, 2003, Washington, DC)

• William W. Cohen: "A Comparison of String Metrics for Matching Names and Records" (joint work with Pradeep Ravikumar, Stephen E. Fienberg)

IJCAI-03 Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (held in conjunction with IJCAI-03, the 18th Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Acapulco, Mexico, August 9-15

• William W. Cohen: "Comparison of String Distance Metrics for Name-Matching Tasks" (joint work with Pradeep Ravikumar, Stephen E. Fienberg)

JSM 2003, August 3-7, 2003, San Francisco

• Stephen E. Fienberg and Julie McIntyre: "Data Swapping and Other Perturbational Methods for Confidentiality" (Dalenius Memorial Session)
  
  
• Stephen E. Fienberg: "Keeping Government Data Confidential," Section on Government Statistics Roundtable Luncheon
  
  
• Shanti Gomatam: "On Data Swapping for Categorical Data"
  
  
• Alan F. Karr: "Counter[Cyber]terrorism: What Statisticians _Could_ Contribute"
  
  
• Stephen Roehrig: "Cyclic Perturbation for Multi-Way Tables" (joint work with George Duncan)
  
  
• Ashish Sanil: "Statistical Utility of Disclosure Limited Releases of Cross-Tabulated Data"
  
  
• Aleksandra B. Slavkovic: "Bounds for Cell Entries in Contingency Tables Given Arbitrary Sets of Conditional and Marginal Distributions"

9th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, August 24-27, 2003, Washington

• Jerome P. Reiter: "Model diagnostics for remote access regression servers"

Workshop on Microdata, Statistics Sweden, Stockholm, August 21, 2003

• Stephen E. Fienberg: "Allowing Access to Confidential Data: Some Recent Experiences and Statistical Approaches"